Research on Automatic Recognition of Rhetorical Questions’ Types in Modern Chinese Texts
Gaoxiang Li,
Yongquan Li
Abstract:Effective social dialogue patterns must understand rhetorical means of expression in a broad sense. Rhetorical questioning is a commonly used rhetorical expression that typically employs an interrogative form to convey a negative function. As the analysis progresses, we find that there is a continuum from interrogative to rhetorical question, with the degree of questioning decreasing and the degree of negation increasing. The rhetorical question allows for a response, and the form of the response reflects the … Show more
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